DELAWARE, PA [CHI] — Students of Darchai Menachem who excelled in school and accumulated the right amount of ‘points’ over the last 12 weeks, were all rewarded with a full day trip up to the Shawnee Mountain, a ski resort that’s a two hour drive from Brooklyn, where the students took skiing lessons and spent a day on the ski slopes.
Many more pictures in the Extended Article!!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A Crown Heights business could go under after it was slapped with nearly $10,000 in fines for posting flyers on city light poles.
Quinton Spikener, 27, the owner of Xyayx Multimedia, a music and video production company, woke up last Thursday to find his mailbox stuffed with 47 letters from the city, each charging a $200 fine. The total bill was $9,400.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Recently, dozens of young shluchos gathered at Chovevei Torah for a grand Online School Day of Celebration. The students truly enjoyed this beautiful class reunion– especially, since for most, it meant meeting their virtual teachers and classmates for the very first time in real life.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Nochum Labkowsky (Los Angeles, CA) and Chaya Wilansky (Elizabeth, NJ) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
Mendy and Simi (nee Simpson) Orimland.
IYH at 609 Lefferts Ave, [between Kingston and Albany Ave].
Zalmy and Raizy (nee Silkes) Cousin.
IYH at 681 Crown St, [between Troy and Schenectady Ave].
Menachem and Tehila (nee Levine) Posner.
IYH at 525 Brooklyn Ave, Unit 2A, [between East New York Ave and Maple St].
Mendy and Chanie (nee Freidman) Fisher
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
Chanan and Chumi (nee Sperlin) Feldman.
IYH at 414 Crown St, [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].
Boruch and Hadassah (nee Turenheim) Rapoport
IYH at Bais Eliezer Yitzchok, 394 Kingston Ave, [between Crown and Montgomery].
Yaakov and Ita (nee Klar) Leaf.
IYH at 823 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Dovie and Yudi Blauner
IYH at 915 S Sherbourne Dr, #101, Los Angeles, CA 90035.
Yisroel and Devora (nee Gorelik) Lew.
IYH at Chabad of Bloomsbury, 24 Ridgmount St, London, WC1E 7AQ, England.
Yisroel and Rishi (nee Kaminetzky) Cohen (Melbourne, Australia)
Please stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at mazaltov@crownheights.info! Thank You.
In light of the financial turmoil and in an effort to bring more productivity and effectiveness to the operations, Chabad of Stamford-CT headed by Rabbi Yisroel Deren hired a communication and corporate efficiency consultant. A clip of their meeting was shown at their annual dinner this past week.
The Rebbe says:
1. Regarding the building of the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) in this week’s Torah portion the Torah says, “You should make the beams for the Tabernacle of acacia wood (Atzay Shittim), standing upright”.
2. The Previous Rebbe explained that the Hebrew word for, “acacia”, which is, “Shittim”, also means, “turning away”. In other words, there is a middle path which is the path of logic and reason, and the turning away from the middle path is called, “Shittim”, from the word, “Shtoos – Senselessness”.
However, there are two types of ways to be senseless. One way is to turn away from the middle path of logic and be senseless in the opposite way of holiness, as the Talmud states, “A person only commits a transgression because a spirit of senselessness entered him”, and another way is to turn away from the middle path of logic and be senseless in a holy way, as the Talmud states, “The senselessness of this Sage has helped him”.
This week, Tzivos Hashem and MyShliach reached a spectacular goal in a joint project available throughout the world. Shluchim’s children, members of the Worldwide Tehillim Club, said over 2000 — yes, 2000! — Kapitlach this Shabbos Mevorchim, an enormously successful figure.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avremi Gitler (Monsey, NY) and Chavi Kornfeld (Seattle, WA) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
The morning after President Obama’s ‘stimulus speech’, Rabbi Moshe D. Bryski from Chabad of the Conejo, sent out his own stimulus package – in the form of a video.
OLD BRIDGE, NJ [CHI] — On Sunday, February 22nd, Bris Avrohom held a Milestone Celebration for having performed 6000 brissin on men and boys in the 29 years of the organization’s existence. They also held a ceremony to give women their Jewish names and a Pidyon ha-Ben ceremony in which first born males were redeemed. The program chairpersons were Bruce and Michelle Berger from Livingston, NJ.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yaakov and Ita (nee Klar) Leaf (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Although invited, Hon. Mayor Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wasn’t able to make it to the Evening of Solidarity benefiting Colel Chabad on Sunday Night.
More in the Extended Article.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Nussbaum (Montreal) and Mimi Gutnick (Sydney, Austraila) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Thursday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy, [corner Kingston Ave].
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Car owners in Crown Heights can breathe easy for another few days, weeks or months. Terrance Nelson, the single most known criminal who has been terrorizing the neighborhood for over 4 years, has been arrested late Wednesday night after being caught breaking into a car on Carroll Street.
More in the Extended Article.
KIEV, Ukraine [JTA] — Unidentified vandals damaged a monument erected in southern Ukraine in honor of the late Lubavitcher rebbe.
The attack occurred overnight Wednesday in Nikolayev, the birthplace of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe, who died in 1994.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel Plotke (Los Angeles, CA) and Esther Overlander (London, England) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Thursday at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
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